Complements the text: The gendered society. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Psychological sex differences: origins through sexual selection -- Believing is seeing: biology as ideology -- The trouble with testosterone -- Sex and temperament in three primitive societies -- Coming of age and coming out ceremonies across cultures -- Rape-prone versus rape-free campus cultures -- A social psychological model of gender -- Exotic becomes erotic: a developmental theory of sexual orientation -- A boy's code of honor -- Boundaries, negotiation, consciousness: reconceptualizing gender relations -- Varieties of "real men" -- Doing gender -- Modern marriage: revising the cultural script -- Household labor and the routine production of gender -- The transformation of family life -- Gender equity in the classroom: the unfinished agenda -- Warrior narratives in the kindergarten classroom: renegotiating the social contract? -- What about the boys?: what the current debates tell us and don't tell us about boys in school -- Hierarchies, jobs, bodies, a theory of gendered organizations -- Bringing the men back in: sex differentiation and the devaluation of women's work -- The glass escalator: hidden advantages for men in the "female" professions -- The body and reproduction of femininity -- Masculinities and men's health: moving toward post-superman era prevention -- The five sexes: why male and female are not enough -- The feminization of love -- Covert intimacy: closeness in men's friendships -- Dating and romantic relationships among gay, lesbian and bisexual youths -- Wars, wimps, and women: talking gender and thinking war -- The myth of sexual symmetry in marital violence -- Culture , gender and violence, "we are not women".
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